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Quotes by Dramatist
!["The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it."
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"O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!"
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"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
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"I to myself am dearer than a friend."
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"She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech."
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"I could a tale unfold whose lightest wordWould harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,Thy knotted and combined locks to part,And each particular hair to stand on endLike quills upon the fretful porpentine.But this eternal blazon must not beTo ears of flesh and blood.List, list, O list!"
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"Love is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of."
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"Help me Cassius or I sink!"
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"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."
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"Now go with me and with this holy manInto the chantry by: there, before him,And underneath that consecrated roof,Plight me the full assurance of your faith."
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"We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money."
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"Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death,The noise was high. Ha! No more moving?Still as the grave. Shall she come in? Were 't good?I think she stirs again-No. What's best to do?If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife-My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.Oh, insupportable! Oh, heavy hour!Methinks it should be now a huge eclipseOf sun and moon, and that th' affrighted globeShould yawn at alteration."
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"Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance."
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"Then the conceit of this inconstant staySets you rich in youth before my sight,Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,To change your day of youth to sullied night;And all in war with Time for love of you,As he takes from you I engraft you new."
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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"Orsino: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won,Than women's are. ...For women are as roses, whose fair flow'rBeing once display'd doth fall that very hour.Viola: And so they are; alas, that they are so!To die, even when they to perfection grow!"
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"If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you."
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"Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved'st him better / Than ever thou loved'st Cassius."
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"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
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